Seventeen years and fourteen albums after Hayseed Dixie formed, they come to Manchester’s Club Academy. The band began one day when legend has it John Wheeler and Mike Daly drank roughly enough whiskey to float a battleship from the Florida Coast over to Portugal and back and decided to play around in John’s studio. Having spent…
Stormzy has announced a sixteen date UK tour, including a date at Manchester Academy. The tour announcement comes of the back of a phenomenal few days for the grime sensation after he revealed that his debut album Gang Signs & Prayer will be released on 24 February. Stormzy’s latest single Big For Your Boots is…
Manchester five-piece Cabbage have announced three further dates following their sold-out April headline tour. The three new dates will include a performance at Manchester’s O2 Ritz in July 2017 and will be supported by The Blinders and Strange Bones. Cabbage, Lee Broadbent (lead vocals), Joe Martin (vocals, guitar), Eoghan Clifford (guitar), Stephen Evans (bass), Asa Morley…
Off the back of the release of their debut collaborative album This Time It’s Personal, Acclaimed poet Dr John Cooper Clarke and esteemed singer / songwriter (and founding member of The Stranglers) Hugh Cornwell are set to perform at Manchester’s O2 Ritz. It’s a match made in the rock ‘n’ roll heaven of their respective…
We pick out the best gigs to hit Manchester this week including Slow Readers Club, Thomas Rhett and Manchester’s own False Advertising.
Six years used to be a lifetime in rock’n’roll. Kids driven by the urgency of youth form bonds, plug in, play gigs, find a label. Acclaim, exhaustion, over and out. Teenage Fanclub’s early years were propelled by that kind of frantic energy (thankfully without the flame out). As outliers of the young sound of Scotland’s…
Biffy Clyro have announced a UK Arena Tour, taking place in November/December 2016. The tour announcement follows the release of the band’s seventh album Ellipsis which went straight to the top of the UK album charts as well as charts in Germany, Switzerland and Ireland. Support comes from Brand New. [adrotate banner=”3″] The full tour…
Hinds have announced a return to Manchester, with a gig at Manchester Academy 2. The date is part of a series of European shows which follow a run in the US. The announcement comes as the group reveal the video for Warts, the fourth single to be taken from their debut album Leave Me Alone….
Katie Melua has announced a series of live dates for late 2016, which will see her joined onstage by the 23-piece Gori Women’s choir.
Having caught False Advertising performing at the Deaf Institute before Christmas, it’s fair to say that I expected a high quality performance. It’s also fair to say that they delivered just that. Gullivers may be smaller as a venue and the crowd a couple of hundred lighter, but False Advertising still pack a punch. And…
